ANIMALS - Female deer take control during the mating season, study finds
(Phys.org)-A new study provides the first evidence of polyandry - when females choose to mate with more than one male - in female fallow deer ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-female-deer-season.htm
ANIMALS - Great white shark moves back to northeast
The great white shark known as Mary Lee is headed north again after spending a number of weeks this winter along the Southeast coast ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-great-white-shark-northeast.htm
ANIMALS - Mexico releases 100,000 endangered sea turtles
A Mexican conservation group released more than 100,000 sea turtles into the ocean last year, in an effort to save a species threatened by egg poachers and fishing nets ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-mexico-endangered-sea-turtles.h
ANIMALS - Rats, like humans, return to drinking once punishment is removed
Once heavy drinking impairs function, a variety of punishment-related threats may motivate people to stop drinking: spouses may threaten divorce, employers may threaten job loss, and courts threaten drunk drivers with losing their driver's license or incarceration. In the face of these threats, many alcohol abusers refrain from drinking, but relapse is very common when the threats of punishment fade, particularly when exposed to alcohol-associate ...
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-rats-humans.htm
BIRDS - Scientists explain how owl can rotate its head without cutting off blood
Medical illustrators and neurological imaging experts at Johns Hopkins have figured out how night-hunting owls can almost fully rotate their heads - by as much as 270 degrees in either direction - without damaging the delicate blood vessels in their necks and heads, and without cutting off blood supply to their brains ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-scientists-owl-rotate-blood.htm
CLIMATE - Increases in extreme rainfall linked to global warming
(Phys.org)-A worldwide review of global rainfall data led by the University of Adelaide has found that the intensity of the most extreme rainfall events is increasing across the globe as temperatures rise ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-extreme-rainfall-linked-global.
ECONOMICS - And Now for Something Completely Different: Context Shifting
For a lot of executives, the typical workday goes down something like this. You start by reading e-mail and news articles. Then there may be a meeting about administrative stuff, followed by another meeting that's all about marketing and another one for interviewing a job candidate. More e-mails, a few voicemails, maybe a quick trip to Twitter, then it's off to a meeting with someone from the finance department ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasmerrill/2013/02/01/and-no
ECONOMICS - Buy An Oil Pipeline To Lower Your Taxes
While there is certainly a growing renewable energy trend, there still remains an entrenched fossil fuel infrastructure and system of associated economic incentives. The public may not be all that aware of one of the incentives, but certain business people are. Master limited partnerships are a way to structure an energy business to reduce the corporate tax burden greatly or even to nothing at all. Each partner's profits from an MLP are counte .. ...
EDUCATION - NYC-backed health startup lab wants to turn academics into entrepreneurs
The Bio & Health Tech Entrepreneurship Lab, a new startup program supported by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), is betting that it can turn a group of mostly science-oriented academics and researchers into business-savvy entrepreneurs. The program which launched at the end of last year, this week announced the members of its inaugural class, selecting 20 startups from an applicant pool of 78. Out of the group, just ...
ENERGY - Interview With NREL Director Dan Arvizu On Distributed Energy / Distributed Solar (Benefits & Obstacles)
I was very luck to have to chance to talk with NREL Director Dan Arvizu for about an hour at the recent International Renewable Energy Conference (part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week). Furthermore, I got most of what we discussed on video. Below is one of the videos from our conversations (all of which I'll be posting here on CleanTechnica). This first one concerns the very interesting and important topic of distributed power generation, esp .. ...
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/30/distributed-power-distri
ENERGY - It's official: the King of the energy nerds, Steven Chu, is leaving
Confirming a media report from last month, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, announced on Friday that he won't be returning to office for President Obama's second term. In a long letter, he detailed the accomplishments that the DOE has made over the past four years, like the ARPA-E program, and writes: While I will always remain dedicated to the missions of the Department, I informed the President of my decision a few days after the election that Jean ...
ENERGY - Report: Clean Power Is Moving (Gradually) Into Americans' Homes
Americans are increasingly relying more on natural gas and renewable energy for heat, power and transportation. From 2007 to 2012, natural gas use grew from 23.4% to 27.2% while renewable energy consumption rose from 6.4% to 9.4%, according to a report released on Thursday ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2013/01/31/report-cle
ENERGY - Washington DC Requires Commercial Buildings To Track Energy And Water Use
Washington DC just took another step toward its stated goal of becoming the greenest city in the United States, with a new requirement for all large commercial buildings to report annual energy and water use.Washington DC skyline image via ShutterstockAs of April 1, 2013 all privately owned buildings over 100,000 square feet must benchmark their 2012 energy and water use to the District's Department of the Environment (DDOE) and then continue .. ...
HOMES - 10 More Ways To Hide The Bed (Some of Which You Can Actually Afford)
Every tiny apartment does not have to have an expensive Murphy bed ...
HOMES - House Hafner is a Beautiful Light-Filled Cubic Retreat With a Living Green Garage in Germany
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SCIENCE - Physicists shine a light on particle assembly
Physicists have developed a method for moving microscopic particles with the flick of a light switch. Their work relies on a blue light to prompt colloids to move and then assemble-much like birds flock and move together in flight ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130131144104.ht
SCIENCE - Physics researchers join effort to finally complete quantum theory
An assistant professor of physics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) will be among a team of international researchers looking to advance the theory of quantum mechanics, a notion challenged by Albert Einstein and pursued by many of the top scientific minds during the past century ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-physics-effort-quantum-theory.h
SCIENCE - Researchers create metamaterial that looks similar to 3D Minkowski spacetimes
(Phys.org)-Researchers from the University of Maryland and Towson University have created a new type of metamaterial that they describe as looking similar to 3D Minkowski spacetimes. In their paper, which they've uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, the researchers explain how the metamaterial can be adjusted to create a demonstration of a multiverse ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-metamaterial-similar-3d-minkows
SCIENCE - X-rays capture electron 'dance'
(Phys.org)-The way electrons move within and between molecules, transferring energy as they go, plays an important role in many chemical and biological processes, such as the conversion of sunlight to energy in photosynthesis and solar cells. But the fastest steps in this energy transfer have eluded detection ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-x-rays-capture-electron.htm
SOLAR - National Solar Energy Centre Launched in UK, Will Promote Building Integrated Solar PV
The BRE National Energy Centre (NSC) for solar PV has been recently launched in United Kingdom to deliver the government's goal of 20 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020. The BRE National Solar Energy Centre is expected to be commissioned in April this year, situated in St Austell, Cornwall, and aims to strengthen innovation, cost reduction, and confidence in the renewable energy market place.Solar panels via Waynenf (some rights reserved)O .. ...
SOLAR - Next-Generation Of Solar Cells, Capturing More Sunlight With Microbeads
"Micro beads" may be the key to extremely thin (and much cheaper) next generation solar cells. Solar cells 20 times thinner than the solar cells of today are only 5-7 years off, according to the nano-scientists that are currently developing them.The estimate, as of right now, is that the super-thin solar cells will be on the market by 2020, which should help to greatly cut down on manufacturing and production costs."Over 90 per cent of the cur .. ...
SOLAR - Solar PV Crowdfunding Pioneer Mosaic Joins With S&P, Dupont, Others To "Make The Sun Bankable"
Retail financial innovation is catching up with technological innovation and government energy policies that are making solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems affordable for a much broader range of the US population. Solar Mosaic made a big splash earlier this month when it announced that the first set of three rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) projects offered up on its crowd funding platform sold out in less than 24 hours.The Oakland, Californi .. ...
SOLAR - Solar power prices to continue falling through 2025, experts say
Prices for solar modules—the part of solar panels that produce electricity—will continue to fall, in line with the long-term trend since 1980, according to a survey of experts by Near Zero, , a nonprofit energy research organization. However, for prices to keep falling for the long term will require continued committment to research, such as on materials used for making solar modules ...
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-solar-power-prices-falling-expe
SOLAR - Solar power: Is it time for the big push?
There are big expectations for solar power in the coming years. Four renowned scientists in the field discuss what's needed now for a big push, including breaking barriers in research and industry ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130131144142.ht
SOLAR - SolarCity Announces Pricing of Its Initial Public Offering
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SolarCity Corporation, a provider of clean distributed energy, announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 11,500,000 shares of common stock at a price of $8.00 per share. The common stock is expected to begin trading on The NASDAQ Global Market on December 13, 2012 under the ticker symbol “SCTY.” A total of 11,434,988 shares are being offered by SolarCity and 65,012 shares are being offered b ...
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121212006723/en/Sola
SPACE - If space shuttle is doomed, do you tell the crew?
A NASA top official wrestled with what he thought was a hypothetical question: What should you tell the astronauts of a doomed space shuttle Columbia ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-space-shuttle-doomed-crew.htm
SPACE - Space robots: Coming soon to a planet near you
Earlier this week, NASA announced the development of a mining robot called RASSOR: the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot. RASSOR has been designed to assist in extracting water, ice and fuel from soil on the moon - all essential resources for future human habitation ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-space-robots-planet.htm
TECH - Development of high-definition infrared color night-vision imaging technology
Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Toshitaka Ohta, NRI, have developed 3CCD full high-definition (HD), infrared color night-vision imaging technology ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-high-definition-infrared-night-
TECH - Google Experiments With New Flight Explorer Feature
Google is trying out a new travel search tool that seems to be aimed primarily at casual travelers that are as concerned about price as they are about a destination ...
http://searchengineland.com/google-experiments-with-new-flig
TECH - Google Gives 15,000 Raspberry Pi Microcomputers to UK Schools
The tech giant is encouraging computer programming in schools by providing thousands of these popular microcomputers to students ...
TECH - IBM Launches its Smarter Workforce Initiative
This week at IBM Connect (formerly Lotusphere), IBM launched its Smarter Workforce program, bringing together the products and services of Kenexa with IBM ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2013/01/31/ibm-launch
TECH - Physicists create new 3D microchip
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created, for the first time, a new type of microchip which allows information to travel in three dimensions. Currently, microchips can only pass digital information in a very limited way - from either left to right or front to back. The research was published today, 31 January, in Nature ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-physicists-3d-microchip.htm
TECH - Samsung 13-Watt 900 Lumens LED Lightbulb Review
I spent a few weeks testing this new 13W 900 Lumens LED lightbulb by Samsung. Here's my experience with it, along with thoughts on LED technology in general ...
TECH - Toray is set to free touchscreens of scratches and smudges
(Phys.org)-Toray Industries has combined its no-scratch, no smudge technologies of 2012 and moved them up a notch with a recent demo at the nano tech 2013 exhibition in Japan. Toray showed off its touchscreen coating that is designed to self-repair scratches and to make fingerprint smudges easy to remove. The goal is to develop this special protective substance for phones and tablets ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-toray-free-touchscreens-smudges
TECH - New Weather App Knows Everything In Your Neighbourhood
Wake up on a morning and one of the first things you're going to need to do is work out what the temperature is like outside, what it's going to be for the rest of the day, and if you need to take your umbrella. Problem is, you don't necessarily live near the closest weather station, and so the exact details of your days' weather might be a little tricky to assess.Not any longer, thanks to Nooly, a new smartphone application which bills itself .. ...
URBAN - Cantilevered Bioclimatic House Breathes Through its Roof in Greece
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URBAN - Former Greenhouse Transformed into a Vibrant Eatery in Amsterdam's Quirky Old Shipyard
Artists, squatters and skaters started NDSM during the 1990s after the Dutch Dock and Shipbuilding Company went bankrupt in 1984. It's very easy to get to the area, as it only takes a short (free) ferry ride from behind "A'dam" Centraal Station. The Noorderlicht cafe is just a few minutes walk from where the ferry terminal, and it is easy to spot as it's shaped like a crystalline hangar and made from transparent materials.Built with durable see-t ...
URBAN - Old Coal Mine Complex in Poland to Be Reconfigured into a Science and Art Center
As of 2011, Poland consumes 77 million tons of coal per year, which makes it the second-largest coal consumer in the European Union and the 10th largest in the world. But since the late 1980s, coal production took a steep decline in Poland, as several large mining operations were shuttered. Warsaw-based design firm, Nizio Design International, has come up with a creative solution for the abandoned Stara Kopalnia coal mine in Walbrzych, Poland. Th ...
URBAN - Rainbow Prefab Duplex is the First Certified PassivHaus in British Columbia
Read the rest of Rainbow Prefab Duplex is the First Certified PassivHaus in British ColumbiaPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", bc passivehouse, british columbia, Dürfeld Constructors, eco design, eco home, first certified passivhaus in bc, green architecture, green design, green duplex, green home, marken projects, passive house, passivhaus, Prefab, prefab home, prefab panels, rainbow passive house duplex, ...
URBAN - SCF Arquitectos Unveils Plans to Restore Earthquake-Devastated Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Haiti
Read the rest of SCF Arquitectos Unveils Plans to Restore Earthquake-Devastated Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in HaitiPermalink |Add todel.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, earthquake reconstruction, eco church, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green renovation, haiti, haiti earthquake, Nouvelle Cathédrale Notre Dame de l'Assomption, port-au-prince ...
URBAN - House Abo Beats the Heat in South Africa With Natural Cooling Techniques
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URBAN - Indian Researchers Create Low-Cost Bricks From Recycled Paper Mill Waste
While recycling trash is preferable to simply chucking refuse into the dump, the process still creates tons of byproducts that end up making their way to the landfill. Fortunately, Professors Rahul Ralegaonkar and Sachin Mandavgane of the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in India (VNIT) have developed a way to create paper bricks from recycling waste. Made from 90% recycled paper mill waste (RPMW) and 10% cement, the mixture is mecha ...
URBAN - Man Builds Family Home Under Huge Desert Rock (Video)
This man and his family have been happily living under a rock for the last thirty years ...
URBAN - Stay in a Giant Wine Barrel Room Overlooking The Black Forest in Germany
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WATER - Synchrotrons explore water's molecular mysteries
(Phys.org)-In experiments at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, scientists observed a surprisingly dense form of water that remained liquid well beyond its typical freezing point ...
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-synchrotrons-explore-molecular-
WIND - How Smart Is GE's "Brilliant" New Wind Turbine?
GE is billing its latest wind turbine design, the new 2.5-120, as the company's "first brilliant wind turbine," and while it's no Einstein (Einstein was much shorter, for one thing) it is pretty darned smart. Aside from an integrated energy storage feature, the 2.5-120 includes a data-driven system that could help boost its efficiency 25 percent higher than GE's current 2.5 megawatt wind turbine, and it also improves power output by 15 percent .. ...
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